# Godfrey Samuelson

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'''Godfrey Blundell Samuelson''' (3 June 1863 – 3 November 1941)<ref name="rayment">{{rayment-hc|f|date=August 2012}}</ref> was a British [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK)) politician. He sat in the [House of Commons](/source/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom) from 1887 to 1892.

Samuelson unsuccessfully contested the [1885 general election](/source/1885_United_Kingdom_general_election) in the [Tewkesbury](/source/Tewkesbury_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) division of [Gloucestershire](/source/Gloucestershire).<ref name="craig">{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1885–1918 |orig-date=1989 |edition=2nd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-27-2 |pages= 284, 286, 379
}}</ref> He was unsuccessful again at the [1886 general election](/source/1886_United_Kingdom_general_election) in the [Frome](/source/Frome_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) division of [Somerset](/source/Somerset), where he was defeated by the [Conservative](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)) candidate in what had been a Liberal-held seat.<ref name="craig" />

He entered [Parliament](/source/Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom) the following year, when he was elected at [by-election in July 1887](/source/1887_Forest_of_Dean_by-election) as [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) (MP) for the [Forest of Dean](/source/Forest_of_Dean_(UK_Parliament_constituency)), following the [resignation](/source/resignation_from_the_British_House_of_Commons) of the Liberal MP [Thomas Blake](/source/Thomas_Blake_(MP)).<ref name="craig" />

Samuelson did not stand again at the [next general election, in 1892](/source/1892_United_Kingdom_general_election).<ref name="craig" />

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